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• firstworldwar
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• armisticeday
• thegreatwar
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Eerste Wereldoorlog, luchtoorlog

from Nationaal Archief

• 5 older comments, and then…
• Cynthia Yee said:

  It looks so surreal

• Indread Coal said:

  Astra-Torres type, probably French from the tailplane markings en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astra-Torres_airship

• hobvias sudoneighm said:

  This image has been used in the indicommons.org post: Just Plane Trouble
  
  

• Linda Sanders said:

  I'd hate that to be on top of my house.

• batvoca said:

  Corrected translation: First World War. Air War. English Airship / Zeppelin has rendered steerlingless and crashed into a house at Eemnes [Netherlands, province Utrecht]. It still stands vertically upright. Netherlands 1917

Do you know your "Schüte-Lanz" from your "Astra Torres"?

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 7 older comments, and then…
• Suck Diesel said:

  1915, price 2d
  
  collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk

• beachcomber australia said:

  I'd not heard of Schütte-Lanz airships before - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sch%C3%BCtte-Lanz_airships

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  Suck Diesel 1915, thank you.

• beachcomber australia said:

  Flickr is sometimes amazing! A 1914 postcard (with a message in German on the back) of a Schütte-Lanz airship bombing Warsaw, via Neil Ennis

• Swordscookie said:

  The German aircraft were so much more elegant than their British counterparts! The British planes illustrated here really do look like "stringbags".